Creation institute gives up on grad degree

Looks like the The Institute for Creation Research has given up on the fight to offer a graduate degree in science education in Texas, according to the National Center for Science Education.

In 2008, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board rejected the Dallas-based institute’s bid to offer the degree because it promised to teach science from a Biblical perspective.

“Religious belief is not science,” Texas Commissioner of Higher Education Raymund Paredes said at the time. “Science and religious belief are surely reconcilable, but they are not the same thing.”

The institute sued, but a federal judge threw out the lawsuit earlier this year. This month, CEO Henry Morris III wrote in an institute publication that “ICR’s legal battle is over.”

In June, the institute’s board of directors voted to close the graduate school and replace it with the School of Biblical Apologetics, which offers a Master of Christian Education degree, according to NCES.

As a religious education school, it would be exempt from licensing by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.